Cola the black labrador is the government's secret weapon in its fight against the invasive fire ants. She is part of a team of seven fire ant detection dogs specially trained to sniff out pheromones given off by the ants. "She is fantastic and has a great work ethic," Mr Gibson said. "When they find the ants they will give an active indication — a scratch — at the area".

Labor senator Deborah O'Neill recently reopened a parliamentary inquiry into the auditing industry. She will also look at why ASIC decided as part of a restructure it would abandon inspection reports. "It's hard to believe that this relatively new program, which was actually shedding some light on what was going on inside the big four, has been lost in a reshape of ASIC," she says. There are plans to use sniffer dogs to detect the smell of corruption.